If you're Fitzgerald, and someone asks you to leave your hometown and alma mater to coach a worse team in an unstable conference at a basketball school and become the third head coach in just over 2 years after they fired one coach who won the Orange Bowl two years later and then fired his replacement after only 2 seasons, you have to take it.

I had been nothing but polite since the MU/KU game ended. The football rivalry appears to be done, so I felt no need to twist the knife. Then, Wickedson started talking about how Mizzou fans were "self-loathing" and called me out by name in a 15 page thread that I hadn't posted in once. Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.

The idea that Fitzgerald would leave Northwestern for Kansas is amusing.

Doesn't it seem doubtful Kansas will have a huge monetary offer on the table for anyone? They just paid Gill to go away and they paid Mangino to go away two years ago. They can't give tickets away. It does not exactly seem like a program that is awash in cash.

They will need to make another Gill kind of hire, and hope they get it right this time.

WTF is with you people and the ticket thing?

Like has been stated a million times...90% of the schools in America don't do well when the teams suck.

Paying a coaches salary is a drop in the bucket when compared to how much the school makes when the ticket sales are rolling. This only happens with wins. Especially at a school where most of the fans dollars have to go to basketball games too.

I had been nothing but polite since the MU/KU game ended. The football rivalry appears to be done, so I felt no need to twist the knife. Then, Wickedson started talking about how Mizzou fans were "self-loathing" and called me out by name in a 15 page thread that I hadn't posted in once. Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.

I had been nothing but polite since the MU/KU game ended. The football rivalry appears to be done, so I felt no need to twist the knife. Then, Wickedson started talking about how Mizzou fans were "self-loathing" and called me out by name in a 15 page thread that I hadn't posted in once. Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.